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backronym
noun
A word that is either not an acronym but is taken to be one and for which a full form is invented by back-formation, or is an acronym and for which an alternative full form is invented by back-formation
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onym
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acronym
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apocopation
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allonym
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tautonym
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abbreviation
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isonym
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abbreviature
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etymologize
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eponymy
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proper name
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synonymist
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onomatologist
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apocope
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caconym
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paronym
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initialism
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synonymize
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acrologic
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brachygraphy
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exonym
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agnominate
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common noun
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desynonymize
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adnoun
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synonym
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content word
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misnomer
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adnominal
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brachyology
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obsoletism
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nounal
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noun phrase
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onomastician
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aptronym
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etymology
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word form
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semantic relation
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apocopate
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epithetic
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euonym
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anthroponym
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proper noun
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phrase
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matronym
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contranym
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byname
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nounize
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disyllable
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hypernymy
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verb phrase
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neologism
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loan translation
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major form class
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troponymy
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nonce word
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figure of speech
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syllabogram
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language unit
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hottentotism
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eponym
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onomasiology
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metronym
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set phrase
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meronymy
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noun
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antepenultima
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toponym
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verbify
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moniker
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orismology
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connotatively
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pejorative
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hyperbaton
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cacoepy
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anthimeria
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agnomination
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rhetorical device
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trisyllable
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free morpheme
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pasigraphy
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bisyllabic
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paradiastole
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suffixal
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count noun
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paragoge
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logograph
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synaeresis
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concrete noun
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hypocorism
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ethnonym
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autonym
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tralation
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eye rhyme
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metalepsis
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colloquially
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autological
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word
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syllabify
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jargonize
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backronym
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